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hip-hopping

hip-hopping is the present participle and gerund of hip-hop.

Meaning of hip-hop

Verb

hip-hop (third-person singular simple present hip-hops, present participle hip-hopping, simple past and past participle hip-hopped)

  1. (informal, intransitive, transitive) To move by hopping or with a hopping motion.
    • Placing the hoops in this position makes skirts hip hop with a swirl.1939 July 14, The West Australian, Perth, page 6, column 4
  2. (informal, intransitive, transitive) To perform hip-hop music.
    • I'm not entirely sure who in WCW felt like a bunch of hip-hopping rappers would get cheered in a company based mainly in the south (especially with a country band stable on the other side), but everything's a good idea in theory.2020, New Jack, Jason Norman, New Jack: Memoir of a Pro Wrestling Extremist, page 108

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Questions about hip-hopping

What is hip-hopping the present participle and gerund of?
Hip-hopping is the present participle and gerund of hip-hop.

Words near hip-hopping in the dictionary

  1. hip-hopera
  2. hip-hoperas
  3. hip-hopped
  4. hip-hopper
  5. hip-hoppers
  6. hip-hopping
  7. hip-hoppy
  8. hip-hops
  9. hip-hopster
  10. hip-hopsters
  11. hip-hugger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hip-hopping (page history and authors); hip-hop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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